Please read and respect the rules of the community instance in which you are posting/commenting. Please try to keep the dirtbag lib-dunking to hexbear itself. Do not follow the Chapo Rules of Posting, instead try to engage utilizing informed rhetoric with sources to dismantle western propaganda. Posting the western atrocity propaganda and pig poop balls is hilarious but will pretty quickly get you banned and if enough of us do it defederated. Realize that you are a representative of the hexbear instance when you post on other instances.
And you can also be a leftist/socialist without supporting authoritarianism. They seem to have forgotten that, and gobble up CCP/Russian propaganda like it's candy. They give reasonable socialists a bad rep. I consider myself leftist. But because I don't support authoritarian regimes, that must mean I'm a dirty filthy liberal.
That's the most annoying part about them imo. They rail against "Western propaganda", but their own site is flooded with Chinese and Russian propaganda which they uncritically accept at face value. At least we can publish criticism of our own governments in the West without being "disappeared" or "re-educated". Try posting anything critical of China or Russia on Hexbear and see how far you get. No nation state should get a free pass on criticism. It's much healthier for society to hold those in power to account, instead of acting like authoritarian simps.
How can anyone on the left even associate themselves with ML when neither China nor Russia allow LGBTQ+ to exist in their countries? I don't understand ML at all
Mostly due to them having an extremely zero-tolerance stance on transphobia, which I learned is extremely hard to find a place on the internet that does that, even among spaces designed for them. A lot of places will just let casual transphobia slide because "it's not that bad" or just because they don't personally see it. (It happens so often I actually made a word for it: not-seeism)
The far left and far right are often more similar than the names imply. This makes sense when you realise they are both fishing in the same pond of disgruntled people at the fringes of society (though of course not exclusively). For many, it is more about being angry at the world than it is about standing for either ideology.
Man, I'd say I'm pretty left leaning, like Anarcho Syndaclist. That said what they're doing isn't doing anything but damage to their cause, worse it's making them look like the whispy lipped basement trolls they are.
I agree with them, in a way, that the US is a dangerous entity to world stability. Their habit of handwaving away the documented atrocities in NK, DPRC, Russia etc is just plain ridiculous. Just because the US isn't the bastion of light, truth and fair justice in the world doesn't mean that those who openly and directly oppose them fucking are!